Jonathan Taplin
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| Born |
July 18, 1947 Cleveland, Ohio |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Scholar, film producer, writer |
| Spouse(s) |
Rosanna DeSoto (1974—1978) Maggie Smith |
| Children | 4 |
Jonathan Trumbull Taplin (born July 18, 1947) is an American writer, film producer and scholar. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and has lived in Los Angeles since 1973. Taplin graduated from Princeton University in 1969 and is the Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Taplin is married to the photographer Maggie Smith and has three children: Daniela Lundberg, a film producer; Nicholas Taplin, a recording engineer and Blythe Taplin, a human rights lawyer.
Taplin's early production work included producing concerts for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese's first major feature film, Mean Streets which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for the Public Broadcasting Service) and 12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until the end of the World, Under Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards and chosen for the Cannes Film Festival six times. Taplin is the author of "Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy" which will be published by Little, Brown and Company in April 2017.
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